Quickwrite 1

1. Quickwrite #1 Look at these pictures, and explain (back in the 1900�s) what The American Dream was. What was a typical family like? What did the house look like? What did families do for fun?

2. Quickwrite #2 What is The American Dream now? Think about people immigrating from other countries�what is their view of America? What is a typical family like? (is there such thing anymore?) What does the typical house look like? What do families do for fun? How has the American Dream changed since the 1950�s?

3. The Great Depression, Migrant Farm Workers and Of Mice and Men

4. The 1930�s Causes of The Great Depression: stock market crash in 1929 and severe drought in Midwest

5. The Dust Bowl

6. Migrant Workers

8. Migrant Workers Paid $2.50--$3.00/day plus room and board�often a tent �Bindle-stiffs� is what migrant workers were called. **John Steinbeck wrote about the struggles of migrant farm workers in his book Of Mice and Men

9. American Dream 1930�s In the Great Depression the American dream had become a nightmare. What was once the land of opportunity was now the land of desperation. Most people wished for their own property or their own farm to live on.

10. Consequences of The Great Depression: 

12. Payment and Strikes

13. End of the Great Depression

14. The 1930�s Summarize: What were the 1930�s like? Why were the 1930�s called �The Great Depression�? How did the American Dream change in the 1930�s?

15. 1930�s slang